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New comment by Tepix in "Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:39:55 +0000

Ever since OpenAI launched their improved voice mode, I've been looking for a capable LLM with builtin voice-in and -out. Llama 4 was supposed to be it but turned out to be a dud. I haven't followed the topic closely lately, did I miss anything? Are there capable (!) open weights omni models that allow low latency voice chat? If so, what software do you use them with? Can you use a PWA on your phone? WebRTC? WebTransport?

New comment by Tepix in "Buy Your Friends Batteries"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:35:57 +0000

Do they even have houses?

New comment by Tepix in "Buy Your Friends Batteries"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:34:41 +0000

In Germany you can use a "Balkonkraftwerk" that just plugs into any outlet and contributes up to 800W. You can also hook up solar panels to it up to 2000W (makes most sense with batteries). No need for the landlord to agree.

New comment by Tepix in "Buy Your Friends Batteries"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:33:05 +0000

> €1,600 for 5 kWh

Those prices are high. You can get 2.56kWh for 270€ on Aliexpress, delivered locally from Germany.

New comment by Tepix in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:21:09 +0000

Interestingly, in a test c't magazine did a long time ago, the test audience preferred mp3 256kbit over the original.

New comment by Tepix in "Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:18:05 +0000

Always put the quantisation in the title!

New comment by Tepix in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:14:36 +0000

So the government provided healthcare covers everything then? If not, you cannot legally get it by paying for it by yourself? Curious.

New comment by Tepix in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:13:04 +0000

> if your solution requires perpetual majority control

I think once universal health coverage is established, it amounts to political suicide to try to take it away again.

New comment by Tepix in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:06:22 +0000

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1756.

New comment by Tepix in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:05:00 +0000

Really, the standard argument "There's a X% loss of privacy, why expect any privacy at all?"

New comment by Tepix in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

Tepix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:03:49 +0000

Is it really? It seems that the fight against total surveillance is bipartisan.

New comment by Tepix in "Site removes all the clutter from recipe videos and gives just the recipe"

Tepix — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:08:32 +0000

Given it’s raison d’être, why does it add a slop summary in front of the recipe, in a different language, no less?

New comment by Tepix in "Show HN: Headlines"

Tepix — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:24:03 +0000

Re: Sunflowers game

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New comment by Tepix in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

Tepix — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:37:09 +0000

Volkswagen will limit your car to 100kWh of charging your home. That's not a whole lot.

New comment by Tepix in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

Tepix — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:34:59 +0000

We also have a solar boom in Germany, unfortunately our minister is trying to stall the deployment of solar instead of copying what Australia is doing very successfully here... it's really a shame!

New comment by Tepix in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

Tepix — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:19:28 +0000

> Google’s history of innovations in privacy technology

Ah yes, their history of innovations! Thanks to Gemini for making a list for me over at https://share.gemini.google/vx9lE5dEJ1L7

The list contains more than 6 chapters with multiple entries each.

Google has truly been very innovative in destroying privacy online.

New comment by Tepix in "50k Boat Names"

Tepix — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:18:41 +0000

Agreed. The „foreign phrases“ category only contains entries starting with A or B

New comment by Tepix in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

Tepix — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:04:27 +0000

An infinite number of data centers even!

New comment by Tepix in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

Tepix — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:00:07 +0000

Are you talking about S or XS? S is too large for a 3090 at 118b parameters.

New comment by Tepix in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

Tepix — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:45:50 +0000

The license is clear. Your post merely adds to the FUD.